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A string of surgeries have been called off over the past year because of a shortage of beds at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital. Fifty-four elective procedures had to be postponed from April 2020 through this month, some shortly before they were sch...

Although Anna Fulton insists she “was never a natural athlete”, she never let it stop her from trying. It’s not uncommon to see her out on the water rowing with her husband Ian. In 2008 she climbed Mt Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, despite having had a hip...

Flo Hall intended to only be in Bermuda for six months but from her first glimpse of the island, she was hooked. She sailed into Hamilton Harbour on the Ocean Monarch in January 1960, having been hired as a nurse by King Edward VII Memorial Hospital....

Tougher visiting regulations have been imposed at rest homes after a massive spike in coronavirus cases. The Royal Gazette has obtained a copy of a letter issued by the Chief Medical Officer which ordered care homes to revert to Phase 1 of the Co...

A Progressive Labour Party backbencher championed women and seniors in her maiden speech in the House of Assembly. Ianthia Simmons-Wade, the MP for Warwick North East, said she was speaking not only in her political role but as her role as a “black s...

Erwin Jones has the secret to a long and happy marriage: do whatever your wife tells you to do. It is a method he has tried and tested many times since June 3, 1950, the day he married his sweetheart, Winifred. “He has a habit of saying, you decide,”...

Motorists will have to obtain a medical certificate proving they are fit to drive every time they renew their licence under legislation passed in the House of Assembly tonight. But the age at which seniors have to take a re-test as been raised from ...

On a quiet afternoon, Viola Rogers loves going through her collection of certificates. She has amassed quite a few over her 97 years of life. Among them: a longtime service award from the First Church of God in Sandys, three from the Southampton Prin...

The popular annual seniors’ tea party has been called off this year, the House of Assembly heard yesterday. Susan Jackson, an Opposition MP, highlighted its absence from the Ministry of Social Development and Seniors for the 2021-22 Budget. Tinée Fur...

More than half a million dollars will be dedicated to support those who age out of child care, the Minister of Social Development and Seniors announced yesterday. The allocation was one of several funds listed by Tinée Furbert, the social development...

Carlton Darrell moved to England at 21 looking for a bigger, more open-minded place. It was 1960 and the Bermuda he left behind had only just desegregated theatres. “It was very difficult for Black Bermudians to purchase homes,” said Mr Darrell, now ...

A campaign group for the elderly has welcomed a move to increase the age for mandatory driving retests. But Claudette Fleming, the executive director of Age Concern questioned if the legislation for driver’s licences should still be framed around “ol...